Synopsis
La Maman et la Putain (The Mother and the Whore, 1973) is available to watch online on iFILM. Jean Eustache directed this three-hour-twenty-two-minute black-and-white film in Paris, with Jean-Pierre Léaud as Alexandre and Bernadette Lafont and Françoise Lebrun as the two women in his life.
Alexandre drifts. He lives off his girlfriend Marie, pursues a nurse named Veronika who speaks about sex and death with a candour that unsettles everyone including herself, and talks endlessly — about everything, about nothing. Eustache holds the camera close and lets the scenes run. The discomfort is the point.
The film took the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1973. Eustache shot it from a place of personal wreckage and made only one short feature before his death in 1981. Lebrun's final monologue runs nearly uncut for close to fifteen minutes. Watch La Maman et la Putain (1973) online on iFILM.
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